MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) -- The Rev. Billy Graham died Wednesday at age 99. He was the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history. Here are some quotations from the man who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Gov. Bill Haslam made a special announcement Wednesday in Memphis at one of the 10 sites in the state now included in the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. "They help us…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Two campaign finance complaints question House Speaker Beth Harwell's help from a political committee and a $3.1 million self-loan to her Republican gubernatorial campaign. One complaint says a December…
RIPLEY, Tenn. -- Registration is open for the upcoming "Walk Across Tennessee" event, which kicks off next month with a goal of walking 470 miles by April 28. The challenge begins…
HARDEMAN COUNTY, Tenn. -- A former fifth grade teacher at Toone Elementary School has pleaded guilty to theft. Erin Piefer pleaded guilty Feb. 16 to theft over $1,000 after an investigation…
JACKSON, Tenn. -- It was a busy morning for the Jackson Police Department as SWAT officers surrounded a north Jackson house for hours. "This [Wednesday] morning about 2:15, the Jackson…
WAYNE COUNTY, Tenn. -- A corrections officer is accused of bringing three weapons onto prison property in Clifton, just across the Tennessee River near Savannah, and he may face additional charges of threatening to shoot up a church in rural West…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- State officials say 10 Tennessee landmarks are being included in a new civil rights trail. Gov. Bill Haslam and state tourism commissioner Kevin Triplett plan to announce the Tennessee sites on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail…
JACKSON, Tenn -- A woman who plead guilty, earlier this year, to a deadly 2017 hit-and-run appears in court, where a Madison county judge decided her fate. Almost a year after the fatal…
GIBSON COUNTY, Tenn.--Multiple agencies responded to a house fire in Gibson County, Tuesday afternoon. The Trenton fire chief said when they arrived heavy smoke was coming out of the house. Everyone inside…
MARTIN, Tenn.-- Police in Martin are looking into a false report of a bomb being placed in a building on the Westview High School campus, Tuesday. According to Martin police, the SRO…
JACKSON, Tenn. -- Community members gathered Tuesday in downtown Jackson to remember the victims of several lynchings from the late 1800s. Participants in the ceremony collected soil from lynching sites and met…
JACKSON, Tenn. -- A driver who pleaded guilty in a 2017 hit-and-run that left a woman dead has now been sentenced. Natasha Washburn was sentenced Tuesday to serve four years for vehicular…
HENDERSON, Tenn. -- "I don't want to look at him," Krystal Flowers said in court. It was an emotional day for Flowers as she recounted the night she says Jerry Neal Wilson…
JACKSON, Tenn. -- According to new report from alarms.org, a few local cities are identified as the safest cities in Tennessee. If you live in Jackson, you are a resident of one…
